AuthorTopic: Notebook troubles (Read 6562 times)

Hey everyone I am new to linux and am having trouble installing Vector on my laptop. Well i recently bought a used vaio one with out a floppy or cd-rom and the hard drive was blank. I do however have a brand new laptop that does have a cd-rom. So my question is how can i get vector onto the vaio without a cdrom or floppy? Could i put the hard drive in my new laptop and use its cdrom to install it or is there a chance that might mess something up. Thanks and sorry about the length.

You need to read the BIOS (setup) manual for the computer. Usually you press Del or F2 to enter the BIOS setup. You then need to redetect the hard drive in the BIOS setup - or set it to AUTO. Also, are you sure you inserted the hard drive properly into its slot?

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I think you have not a loader. Do you installed LILO at the mbr of that hd?If you dont, the only solution I can see is go back to the new laptop, boot the VL cd and go to Fix Lilo or something like that. Then install LILO on the mbr of the old hd.

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Try booting from the VL cd and re-install. If the hard drive is not okay, the process will halt when it can not find it. If it works, do a whole new installation, make sure it will boot up from hard drive before moving it back to original machine.